Direct democracy and nonpartisan rep govt, for a species-mature governance

Direct democracy is a legacy from its 400 years in the Roman Republic. It comes to us in the Declaration Of Independence. DD/rep-govt was ruled a republican form of govt intrinsic to the Constitution by our highest courts during corruption-fighting in the Reform Era, 1898-1918. It needs upgrading to help us fight today's corruption. DD/rep-govt political junkies wanted.

Friday, February 08, 2008

VA Service-Connected Disability

American Legion -- Justice for our sick and disabled veterans has always been, and must forever be, the first concern of The American Legion -- To uphold and defend the Constitution of the USA; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100-percent Americanism; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on Earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our deviotion to mutual helpfulness.

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My medical problems have caught up with me again. There's new urgency in my Reiter's syndrome.

Reiter's is an inflammation, autoimmune, bone degeneration, and tendon-bone connection degeneration disease. Its variable inflammation is systemic and interferes with just about every little thing that's healthy.

Although Reiter's adversely affects many of my organs -- eyes, heart, pancreas, kidneys, liver, and prostate -- its DJD (degenerative joint disease), the eating away of bone in the joints, is overmatched by its spiny new bone growth in the joints. Recent X-rays, and Dr. Roush's expert interpretation, have been a while perking out of the back brain, but they're up front now.

The new and fragile bone growth sets up easy fractures. The spine's vertebrae display "hypertrophic disease" (widening of gaps between the vertebrae) as well as "posterior osteophytes" (bone spurs on the inside of the spine, a threat to wedge into the gaps between vertebrae and grow on to penetrate the spinal cord). The amount of vertebrae degeneration is also a threat. Spontaneous collapse is possible.

No lifting. No driving. No falling down.

Needless to say, the spinal vertebrae problems open the possibility of living life mostly on a motorized wheelchair.

Not thrilled with that possibility, I'm now in some sort of gruesome race to get my Reiter's approved as a "VA service-connected disability" so that I can get to the back surgery that will prevent me from becoming a paraplegic or quadraplegic.

Aarrrgggg. Hoping for quick back surgery. I've lived a long adult life thinking that nobody with half a brain or more ever hopes for back surgery. The world upside down.

Three times across my life, I've tested positive for Reiter's genetic marker, HLA B-27. I've had a "genetic predisposition" to Reiter's since birth. But the predisposition is not the disease.

The disease is caused by strong infection, typically by one of two groups of infections. First are sexually transmitted diseases. To the best of my knowledge, I've never had a sexually transmitted disease. Second is the group of infectuous dysenteries.

In the military mess halls of the late 1950s and early 1960s, dysentery was a common affliction. An episode in basic training, at Lackland AFB, wrecked my entire training flight, about 70 men, in about twenty minutes. I was victim to at least one more very bad episode of dysentery in the first year at my permanent-party SAC base.

I had intermittent spinal pain problems -- a signature of Reiter's -- throughout my USAF enlistment. At the exit physical, the doctor wanted to fuse vertebrae in the middle of my back. (Service connected disability established.) Naturally, I refused.

It's all right there in my official medical records. Well -- if the medical records survived the National Records Center fire of 1973. 16 to 18 million Army and USAF records sets were lost in the flames.

The USAF records destruction dates were "discharge" dates from September 1947 to January 1964. My date of honorable discharge was in June 1965.

Should be good to go. Unless, that is, the term "discharge" date has been misused and the archivists really mean "release from active duty" date. If so, then my release from active duty in June 1963 probably puts my records six months deep into the fire and me in deep doo-doo.

I've given you the tip of the iceberg here. My online application for service-connected disability was received by the VA on 31 January 2008. The application is complicated. The application process is a bear. As in "some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you". Expect denials. Never give up.

I'm looking to the American Legion to provide me with a knowledgeable "service officer" to represent me with the VA. Miles to go before I sleep.

I'll be away from the political project for a while. No big deal, of course. I won't be missed. The do-nothing American people are still insisting on giving away their political responsibilities to players in the politics and culture of lying, anti-Constitutional governance, and zero accountability that has been masquerading as our national govt since Bush's usurpation of the presidency, 20 January 2000.

Election 2008 may go down in US politics as one of the great misdirections of the American people. Everybody voting ignores the fact that we've had nothing resembling fair elections since 2002, with the Diebold electronic vote-counting corruptions held firmly in place and expanded wherever possible by our politicians. The fascist 3-branch despotism that our national govt has become operates behind the smoke and mirrors of Election 2008 to betray more of our justice, freedom, and democracy for the benefit of themselves and the superrich. And most Americans just don't get it.

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About Me

Note, please. This is direct democracy turf. It's outside the status quo corruption box. It's about fully independent citizen lawmaking, aided by Online Citizen Institutions, melded to nonpartisan rep govt. It's a species-mature governance that centers on political equality, rights, and the rule of law. It's about finding the Bush presidential usurpation to be null and void from its inception on 20 Jan 2001, reversing all of its acts done under color of law, and following with criminal prosecutions for felony conspiracies against citizen rights in all 3 branches. It's about Constitutional renewal, state and national. It's about I&R cleanup and criminal prosecutions in the states for unconstitutional blocking of I&R petitions. Profile -- 60-something techie city dweller, prone to wilderness. Ex-military. Dual majors, Univ Calif Santa Barbara, philosophy & history. Former claims rep, 1st-level appeals officer, SSI rep, and field rep for Social Security Admin. Founder, Direct Democracy League, Jan 1994. Columnist, Populist Party of America.

Science Sites

Offshore Media

Special Reference--
Criminal Federal Reserve

"Open Letter To Gary North: Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetery System" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 30 December 2007. Brief subprime and central-banking recap first, then the Fed's and central banking's legal landscape, then a semi-rigorous examination and collapsing of North's unfortunate paraphrasing of central banking's pooh-poohing of subprime illegalities (everybody knew about the frauds, nobaody said anything about the frauds, making all the frauds "common practices", which are not criminal -- a new theory of law and arrogance writ large), then some questions for North at the end.

Aaron Russo's 2006 film, "America: Freedom to Fascism". Free-per-view at Google video, the film is also available on DVD from the AFTF site. Russo connects the unconstitutional and felonious "Federal Reserve Act of 1913" with the fraudulent 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment and its unconstitutional "personal income tax". From that criminal tandem, he shows how the superrich of the central banking cabal are the true masters of our domestic and foreign policy-making. If Russo's film does not crank up your sense of urgency against the coming North American Union and its dollar-dumping "Amero", then you are probably useless to the American nation.

"Russo's 'Freedom To Fascism'" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 01 November 2006. This is a wide-ranging review of Russo's film. (It is a more rounded-out version of what was published on the Populist Party site as "Outing The Constitutional Criminals".) It argues that Russo's film is an invitation to examine the evidence, not emotion-triggering propaganda pointing people away from the evidence. The essay also examines some major supporting evidence only mentioned in the film and takes to task the money-power shill-trolls who spew lies to criticize the film.

"The Fed--Jekyll Island Monster" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 07 July 2006. Abolishing the unconstitutional and felonious Federal Reserve and its unconstitutional national debt is necessary to our rule of law. Abolishing the Federal Reserve system may be the only way to avert the financial collapse of the US.

Stephen A. Zarlenga's 2002 book, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money -- The Story of Power. Available directly from the publisher, the American Monetary Institute, Valatie, NY. Nature and history of debt-based money and why we need to institute a debt-free money system. Widely acclaimed by serious students of monetary economics. Former U.S. Treasury official, Richard C. Cook, writes -- "Stephen Zarlenga’s book ... is one of the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years. Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is .... reform along the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok today."

Special Reference--
Dual-Mode U.S. Politics

Michael Parenti's 2007 (eighth edition) book, Democracy For The Few, Wadsworth Publishing. Parenti critically assesses the dominant dual-mode U.S. politics paradigm -- a public and seemingly honorable facade of fictions fronting for private, behind-the-scenes, criminal corruptions. "By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how U.S. Government works."

Special Reference--
Universal Health Care

"Universal Health Care--Myth and Truth" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 October 2007. Universal medical care insurance is not univeral medical care. It's a sop to corproate predators and the superrich from criminal politicians who want the superrich to use the Diebold Electoral Frauds to put them in high office. It's anohter predator elitism carpet-bombing of the middle and lower classes. And it's not just one-dimensionsal greed. Universal health care insurance is another smoke screen, covering the unconstitutional and illegal suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system that is a preventative and curative therapy for atherosclerosis and most of its spinoff diseases -- such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, adult diabetes and on into a very long list. The suppression of EDTA chelation therapy likely could not exist in a universal health care system. The suppression of EDTA chelation allows the medical industry to gouge hundreds of billions of dollars annually out of the society. But beyond the greed-driven money-grubbing, there's horrific human cost. We lose over one million Americans each year to early and unnecessary deaths due to atherosclerosis. Most are not faceless. They're mothers, fathers, siblings, extended family, and friends. We desperately need universal health care.

"VA Medical--Reckless Endangerment Whims" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 13 September 2007. There's something very wrong at the Muskogee (Oklahoma) VA Medical Center (now re-named the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC). I went to their emergency room on 04 September 2007 with double pneumonia. In combination with my core conditions of insulin-dependent diabetes, heart problems, chronic renal failure, and chronic Reiter's syndrome (an inflammation, autoimmune, and bone-deterioration disease that also adversely affects many of my organs), the pneuomonia was a clear threat to my 60-something life. Needing hospital monitoring for any number of possible, near-future emergencies, I was instead given a shot, some antibiotics, some cough syrup, and then pushed out the door. They saved a lot of money by pushing me out the door. As if the reckless endangerment of my life were not enough, I later discovered that at least three doctors played parts in falsifying and fabricating records of my visit. The doctored records blur the evidence of my needing hospitalization, make the doctors look good, and make any complaint of mine look bad. Clearly, those doctors are deeply accomplished fabricators. A written complaint to the VA's "Office of the Medical Inspector" circled through the VA zero-acccountability system, ending with the Muskogee facility manager calling 16 November and giving me a thorough nazi stroking. It's way past time that we absorb the extensive infrastructure of the VA medical system into a universal health care system, ending the VA medical zero-accountability.

18 USC 3 -- Accessory After The Fact -- "Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact."

Gives the "null & void project" outline, describes the smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan, and discusses some standalone Constitutional amendments that we need to get passed.
Bush is not a president. He was not elected in accord with the Constitution. He is a presidential usurper whose usurpation violates the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution. His usurpation is the product of a wide felony conspiracy, defined in and violating 18 USC 241. By constitutional principle, his "presidency" was null and void from inception, regardless of when any judge finds the usurpation to be legal fact.
Every Bush action taken under color of law since 20 January 2001 is null and void -- and is an anti-law regime that has generated new felonies every time the individual anti-law regime has been applied. If we apply ourselves, it will take a decade or longer to unravel the web of treasonous felonies.
Nothing new under the sun. In the 60s BCE, Pompey ripped the anti-republican constitution and laws of the usurper-dictator Sulla out of Rome's legal fabric, returning Rome to the great republic that it had been for nearly 400 years.

Unorganized, we the sovereign people are nothing. Organized regionally and nationally in citizen action groups outside the political parties, the NGOs, the anti-war protests, and the flash mobs, we are all-powerful. We can operate citizen action plans such as "Unity America", adding a "jury nullification" project that will overturn the elitist judges' anti-Constitutional intentions.
Saul Alinski, hugely successful organizer of the left, 1940s to 1970s, taught his crews to "never do anything for anyone who can do it themselves--never", to "see the world as it is", to "fix on the world that you wnat to have", and to organize. We need to relearn those Alinski rules.

We should not trust a national Article 5 constitutional convention, no matter who calls it. Article 5 gives Congress an ace in the hole: the choice of ratifying any amendment in either the state legislatures or the special ratifying conventions.
Recent generations of predator elitists have been actively working toward superrich ownership of the state legislatures. "Soft money", with no limit and no accounting, floods perqs and the reelection campaigns at the state level. Ownership of the state legislatures by the superrich is obvious.
Hamilton's Article 5 is a trap. In this political culture of lying, where bribery money is SCOTUS-sanctified free speech, it will be a simple matter for the superrich to find sufficient sycophants among the convention's elected delegates. With the fawning parasites of the superrich crafting the convention's proposed provisions, and the superrich-owned state legislators voting ratification of the convention's proposals, citizen rights will be further limited and opportunities for predator greed greatly expanded.
I've shifted from advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) based on Article 5 to advocating standalone constitutional amendments campaigned individually.
We can count on our amendments being willingly done by the politicians in Congress after they've gained THE FEAR from the continually escallating, smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan -- or anything similar.

Another Motive For
Corporate Globalization

Two looks at a nasty surprise coming for Americans. In a parallel to Katrina's mauling of New Orleans, the natural disaster surprises have been secreted away from us by American govt.
Two active supervolcanoes in the western US -- the largest at Yellowstone, the other at Long Valley, just SE of Yosemite Nat'l Park in California -- are past-due on their supereruption cycles. In keeping with Bush junk science and fascism, data is being intentionally fragmented and/or hidden. The public is not being given anywhere near the complete picture for either of those natural monsters.
Geologic history shows that a minimal explosive supereruption is hundreds or thousands of times greater than St. Helens in 1980. Either of the supervolcanoes is capable of such a supereruption. The immediate kill-zone would be a radius of about 600 miles. Unprepared, tens of millions will die, just in the 600-mile radius. The western US will be largely destroyed. The midwest breadbasket will be largely buried in volcanic glass. Global volcanic winter will last 5 to 10 years, killing much of the biosphere. The event will seriously alter economics and politics around the world.
In apparent preparation, many US corporations have moved their production facilities offshore. In apparent preparation, the collusion of corporate fascism and US govt fascism is quietly birthing -- behind the busy political fictions that misdirect the American people -- the North American Union and its dollar-dumping Amero.

Lays out the growth of American fascism, from Rockefeller's Standard Oil, to the Gilded Age butcheries of ordinary people, to the German war-machine rebuild in the Interwar Period, to participation in and war profiteering from the Nazi slave-labor camps, to Nixon Era corporate laissez faire, to Reagan Era super laissez fair and voodoo economics, to Bush Era nation-crushing laissez faire and super-voodoo economics.
Compilation of twenty-six categories of Bush-Cheney fascist practices:
"No waffling. As with German and Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the Bush-Cheney Usurpation is pure fascism. It demonstrates a strong-man leader, extreme secrecy, controlled media, fraudulent elections, judicial rulings clearly violating the Constitution, negation of the rule of law by all three branches of government, obstruction of justice for political and corporate leaders, the making of ex post facto law to immunize political and corporate leaders from past crimes, redefinition of established law for corruption and ideological purposes, redefinition of commonly understood language terms to avoid legal retribution (e.g., 'torture' to mean only treatment resulting in severe organ damage or death, and 'terrorist surveillance' to mean the interception of any communication or bank activity done by US citizens), the making of unconstitutional law to limit rights, suppression of Constitutional rights for profits and power, misuse of policy and law for unstated intentions, cronyism and corruption, sham national security obsessions, warmaking for profits and power, supremacy of the military, sham nationalism for the masses while leadership creates policy to benefit the transnational and stateless superrich, hard science made politically relative, anti-intellectualism outside the political and corporate elites, suppression of critical thinking in public education, intermixing of government and religion, enemies and scapegoats obsessions, destruction of undesirable minority population and cultural centers (e.g., Warsaw ghetto and New Orleans), male chauvinism and suppression of women's rights, and corporation protection extremes including lassez faire economic policy and suppression of labor's rights and power."
The essay briefly describes how we can get back our lost constitutional republic.

For over a hundred years, govts in the I&R states have unconstitutionally and arbitrarily delayed, altered, and/or rejected citizen-proposed law offensive to money-power. This gauntlet, to which every citizen-proposed I&R petition is subjected, is based on unconstitutional anti-law regimes passed by the legislatures and signed by the Governors as if they were proper statute law. The anti-law regimes include "separation of powers" unconstitutionalities, in which executive branch officials perform legislative branch functions, and the horrendously unconstitutional "binding judicial review of proposed law". No American constitution defines the judicial power to include binding review of proposed law. Judges would be quickly impeached and removed if they tried it on legislature-proposed law. For over a hundred years, the leadership of both major political parties have perpetrated state and federal felonies against every I&R petition processed by state govt. After the criminalities come the bad press for all citizen lawmaking. First the corruptions, then the lies. The clean-up is do-able.
Our constitutional renewals need to eliminate political parties from all govt matters at both national and state levels, following Nebraska's 1934 still-successful nonpartisan unicameral legislature. Nonpartisan rep govt, with fully independent citizen lawmaking, buttressed by online citizen institutions, is the species-mature governance that will auto-center on the social norms underpinning our Constitution -- political equality, rights, and the rule of law.

It's our best comparison-contrast of truth and the American situation. I hope the author will continue to develop and edit it over what little time we have remaining for dissent.

Remedies Essays

"Judicial Independence: Zero Accountability" -- Neitzke, 16 August 2006. Judicial independence was originally intended to keep the elites safe from commoners, not to keep judges safe from politicians. The zero accountability of judges led to SCOTUS crushing social justice in the Gilded Age, again in the 1920s and 1930s, and again in today's Bush-Cheney Usurpation. We need to end their aiding the predator elites with impunity. Bush v. Gore, 12 Dec 2000, was an unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous SCOTUS ruling that aided only the predator elites. We need to make the federal bench accountable to the sovereign people -- with nonpartisan elections and the recall by citizens in each Court's jurisdiction. Note -- This post marks my personal change from advocating a 2nd Nat'l Constitutional Convention to advocating standalone Constitutional amendments for our renewal.

"Extraordinary Rights Of Americans" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 24 May 2006. (Argues that fundamental human and political rights are humanly absolute, not politically relativistic, and that once established, such rights live forever. Further, that the "extraordinary rights of Americans", as distinct from the "traditional rights of Englishmen", were given to us in the Declaration of Independence, hallowed on the Revolution's battlefieds, and betrayed by the predator elitists who authored the Constitution.)

"Direct Democracy Rights" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 19 June 2006. (Argues that the January 1863 Emancipation and its murderous KKK aftermath is one of the great historical justifications for why the Constitution should have had DD/rep-govt from its beginnings -- and for why we should create it now.)

"Forward, Direct Democracy, 2.0" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 June 2006. Last updated 27 September 2006. (Basic facts and developmental history concerning DD. Comparisons of the founding principles and implied promises of the Declaration of Independence with the realities of the pure rep govt political dynamic from the Constitution -- which buries the DOI's implied promises out of reach of the ordinary people, for the benefit of predator elitist profits and power. The sidebar essay below, "Executive Summary of Direct Democracy, 2.0", appears in this post so that readers can make comments on the sidebar text, if they wish.)

"The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World" -- Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, 27 June 2006. (Report based on year-long study concludes "that all three of the nationâs most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election".)

"Group identifies new flaws in Diebold e-voting machines", The Raw Story, 31 July 2006. (Article, Diebold Hack-O-Matic II. Describes newly-discovered toggle switch inside the latest, no-paper-trail Diebold TS machines. Allows the hacker-operator to load different operating systems from different sources. The OS in the machine's EPROM is the certified software that can pass any test. Toggle the switch to load an uncertified and easily-hacked OS from FLASH. Will produce whatever vote count the hacker wants. Diebold has retro-fitted most of these machines with modems, so that the hacker can work by telephone. Switching back to the EPROM leaves no trace of what happened, but it does leave the hacked-in votes.